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Basura: Locker-room chatter spins impeachment debate
“Walk on By” — Burt Bacharach, as sung by Dionne Warwick I was walking from the shower to my locker at the gym, when I heard one man say to another,…
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Army Bob: It’ll be pay day for climate change industry
by Robert M. Traxler Climate change, the latest in the long list of disaster predictions from environmentalists, is perhaps the best term they have coined. Global cooling, mass starvation, global…
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Ranger Rick: Assorted pre-holiday political commentary
Surveying the Plight of Democrat Candidates: It sure is interesting to watch the Democrat Party go from the self-proclaimed "party of the working people" to the party of the free…
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One Small Voice: A holiday meditation on ‘Helping’ poem
One of my favorite poems was penned by the renowned children’s writer Shel Silverstein. This poem, called Helping, from Silverstein’s 1974 collection called Where The Sidewalk Ends, goes like this:…
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Army Bob: So where’s the ‘watchdog’ media in impeachment?
by Robert M. Traxler Mark Levin said Thursday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had awakened the "sleeping giant" of the American people by leading impeachment proceedings against…
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Ranger Rick: Fusion guests fail on ‘Meet the Press’
Being a purveyor of screen and written word, I happened to watch "Meet the (De)Press(ed) with Chuck Todd. There is such glee in his voice when he comes on —…
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Yes It’s True: When it comes to deer hunting, I’m Pro-Choice
“It’s the second week of deer camp, and all the gang is here. “We drink, play cards and shoot the bull but never shoot no deer. “The only time we…
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Army Bob: So we aren’t allowed to question ‘settled science?’
In a comment on one of Ranger Rick's columns on climate change, a reader asked, "Do 'common sense conservatives' who share the author’s views on global climate change ask their…
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Yes, It’s True: Standing for Pledge, anthem a matter of manners
“What mighty contests arise from trivial things.” — Alexander Pope There was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in the past week over the news the Grand Valley…
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Ranger Rick: President Obama’s advice to Dems is sound
It has been my experience and has been demonstrated again and again by Democrats, they know how to fight and stick together. With a growing group of Democratic candidates for…